How to Use pas de deux in a Sentence

pas de deux

noun
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  • Your lead singer does an Astaire-and-Rogers pas de deux with a lamp.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Control of your smiling face as your feet scream in your pointe shoes at the end of a long pas de deux.
    — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 22 Apr. 2021
  • In this pas de deux, the female dancer wears only a leotard.
    — Helena Alonso Paisley, miamiherald, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The dream ends with the garden’s King and Queen performing a pas de deux in the visitors’ honor.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
  • During the last act of each film, the final girl and Jason lock into a grisly pas de deux.
    — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Fashion and the ballet have danced an elegant pas de deux for decades.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Winter sashays into summer, while spring and fall pas de deux.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 May 2019
  • At a performance with Veyette a week before her farewell, in the pas de deux, the two kept seeking each other out with their eyes.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The pas de deux between Prince Siegfried and his beloved Odette brought me back into my own chest as my daughter’s rose and fell beside me.
    — Maura Brannigan, Vogue, 25 July 2023
  • Mitchell’s partner for one of the pas de deux was a white ballerina, Diana Adams.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Leading up to the ballet’s grand pas de deux, Kitri and Basilio, a poor barber who is Kitri’s one true love, marry when Basilio fakes his death.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2018
  • At the beginning of our pas de deux, five years ago, Sondheim would receive me in his East Forties town house.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Their spooky pas de deux takes place within a web of personal intrigue.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Doors and trunk lids swing open in rhythm, setting up a pas de deux between drivers and their passengers.
    — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The loveliest moments came in the second movement, where the violin has its sweet-sad pas de deux with flute, and then clarinet.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The flaying and dismembering of a deer, a task shared by two hunters, unfolds as a vigorous pas de deux.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In the second movement, a gorgeous, somber pas de deux pulls the focus inward, like sheltering in place.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Partnering work — or pas de deux in ballet — has always been my anchor in dance.
    — Nina Garin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Inoue and Akana’s pas de deux stuck out in the piece with complex and expansive movements, including turns and lifts.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Rodolfo and Mimi's Act One pas de deux of falling in love is a breathtaking encounter.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Robichaux also brought passion to the final pas de deux, with Andre Gallon as her prince.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The ballet’s high point comes in the third act, with simultaneous pas de deux outside Musetta’s cafe.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Its central pas de deux, created for Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, was intended for a black man and a white woman.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Soloist India Bradley recalls working on a pas de deux in Partita.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Betty Buckley has a somewhat more cheerful conclusion to draw from this strange pas de deux.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The failure of the Democratic ticket to acknowledge this unseemly pas de deux led to its defeat in 2016.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The story of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel comes later in a brutally muscular pas de deux.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The second pas de deux occurs in Juliet’s bedroom, after the secret wedding.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
  • All of this can make for a complicated pas de deux between politicians and the university.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • In the short pas de deux of the savages, which came as the finale of the Revue Nègre, there was a wild splendor and magnificent animality.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022

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